Editing Writing - Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16ZTsz_USHNsc6Z2OYs2JUVfOrz6F1U0hN4Qm4KgrioA/edit?ts=5afa07e1#slide=id.pReviewing editing and celebrating writing.

What do we want our students to know about reviewing writing?
I know what I am learning and why - making the connection with examples in Reading, highlight examples of good sentence starters.

• Finding good examples in own writing.

5. I write carefully and checking as I go. Important to read as writing - tips ??

• Underline words but only need to fix 4 (some) or them NOT all.
• Author - make time to edit, be an author and share writing. 
• Need to share something from your writing to someone, most days.

Responding to writing model

Feedback - first say something about the 'voice' the message,  before we respond to the criteria.

(sit on your hands and be a reader before you are a teacher)

Dylan Wiliam - feedback. 1/3rd Self, Peer and Teacher.
Need to get students noticing and reflecting on their own and peer writing.

When students have given feedback to a peers piece of work it makes them more aware of requirements in their own. Usually much tougher on a peer than the teacher.

A section within book for 'Quickwrite'

Google docs - recent history to show recrafting.

Editing as you go chart - STOP

Skills toolkit for Writing

Example Roald Dahl recrafting

Three Lesson types

Mini-lessons-

Teach a skill that they may need before the writing lesson.

Super sentences - agree criteria for the 'super sentence' - Whiteboards 

Example of recrafting sentence 

Partner check - circle the extra detail. Feedback on the criteria NOT fix the sentence. 

Adverbs can be a useful bank of sentence starters 

The 4 ways we can re-craft - Explicitly teaching the re-crafting.

Change 2 words - wiggly line tool to identify recrafting

Improving a verb or a noun to make them better. Naming the tree.

Chose the recrafting task to match the writing criteria. One a week - adding, changing

Teaching kids about revising

Sentence Length example

Clear criteria and challenge - VISUAL, MEMORABLE AND MEASUREABLE

Union of Strength videos - challenge to get 4 wow words

Note taking - sloth

I do, modelling   - I'llshow you how to get started

we do, shared writing, guided writing

you do, independent writing

review - lesson wrap up.

Suggested Wrap-up sequence - 

1. Project the student's work - take a photo of work and email, drop to project and use to review. 

Quick Writes

Writing lessons

Independent writing cycle

Shelf-check - can you spot 3 mistakes? Recraft just one paragraph

Partner checking will be most successful when-